[dfwgator]

Anti-Trust Laws? Never heard of ‘em.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Anthem to acquire CIGNA, leaving only 3 big health insurance companies

0bamacare at work again.

Destruction is the ONLY type of "work" dems seem to understand.

[stylin19a]

ahhh...RATS should love this deal....mergers eventually get ‘em to single payer.

[BlueStateRightist]

This will be bad. Much worse than the airline consolidations in terms of what it means for the average citizen (or, should I say, COMRADE).

[John S Mosby]

Next up— Nationalization of the 3 remaining insurance companies, which nationalizes all of the smaller agencies who carry them.

Then, rates soaring over 300% as cost factors of carrying obamaumaocare deadbeat homeless, illegals, AIDS, ER admissions and a host of other impacts-— the nationalized “too big to fail” govt. insurer will have to be “bailed out” by the same taxpayers who are “covered”. The country will be totally destroyed at that point.

[gov_bean_ counter]

If you like your insurance (company), you can keep your insurance (company).

[Ingtar]

So the people who had a big security breech are taking over the ones who have managed to keep my information safer for years?

[originalbuckeye]

We liked Cigna. Now we are with Aetna (not our choice) and have a PPO. Even with a PPO, Aetna told me I needed a referral to see a specalist for a problem for which I was being previously treated, but am no longer able to go to my previous doctor as he doesn’t take Aetna. We bought the PPO so we could go to doctors of our own choice. But to Leftists, ‘choice’ only means the ‘right to an abortion’, not actually being able to see the doctors you have been seeing for years. The Government is already controlling our health care......they just aren’t yet upfront about it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Only 3 golden parachute packages now needed to get Single Payer.

[Organic Panic]

Democrats did want single payer.

[cva66snipe]

If Blue Cross Blue Shield went bankrupt and was forced to close I would consider it one of the most hilarious events in a decade. They have been a huge backer of all of this. They pulled a stunt in Tennessee back around 1993 that sounded like pages out of Barry and Nancy’s playbook. Look up Tenncare and Blue Cross. They ran roughshod over Tennessee doctors to get a system called Tenncare established to replace Medicaid. They also ran full page scaremonger adds telling people to call their state assembly members to support Tenncare. So what HMO ended up with the majority of Tenncare patients? BC/BS

[Logical me]

Even before Obamacare the insurance companies were crooked as hell. When we hear buying out in the double digit billions, something is wrong. How can they be worth so much and still charge so damn much? Maybe it is easier to think it out, they are not for the patient, but up their arses in greed. Maybe it is time for a new President to break them up into more controllable sizes.